PRINCETON, N.J. -- Five Ivy League men's soccer
players earned Capital One Academic All-District ® honors, it
was announced last week. The Ivy honorees include Sam
Kernan-Schloss and TJ Popolizio of Brown,
Nick Alers of Yale, Richard Smith
of Harvard and Thomas Brandt of Penn.

The Capital One Academic All-District ® teams were selected
by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) to
recognize the nation’s top student-athletes for their
combined performances athletically and in the classroom.

Kernan-Schloss is a junior goalkeeper with the Bears who carries
a 3.71 GPA as a Community Helath and Economics major. Popolizio, a
senior forward for Brown, is a Commerce, Organization and
Entrepreneurship major with a 3.3 GPA. Alers is a
Economics/Political Science major with the Bulldogs who plays
defense and boasts a 3.96 GPA. Smith is a junior defender with the
Crimson who majors in Chemistry and carries a 3.58 GPA. The quartet
was named to the District One team for Divison I.

Brandt was placed on the District Two team for Division I. The
Quaker senior defender is an economics major with a 3.57 GPA.

The five Ivy honorees are considered First-team Academic
All-District ® honorees (as they are in districts with only a
First Team) and therefore they each advance to the Capital One
Academic All-America® Team ballot, where first-, second- and
third-team All-America honorees will be selected later this
month.